Letters to the editor for Saturday, March 23, 2013

Saturday

Mar 23, 2013 at 2:00 AM

The pettiness of President Obama's detractors never ends. In the Your Voices page on March 14, one writer criticizes the president's "lavish lifestyle" and cites the right-wing squawk box the Daily Caller as proof.

The pettiness of President Obama's detractors never ends. In the Your Voices page on March 14, one writer criticizes the president's "lavish lifestyle" and cites the right-wing squawk box the Daily Caller as proof.

Fortunately, the right-wing fringe has so many unreliable sources for its nonsense. After all, you can't quote Fox News or Rush Limbaugh any more without the average American breaking into laughter.

However, I would suggest that the writer be relieved that Obama hasn't taken a trip home since he became president. I hear the airfares to Kenya are murder.

Kenneth Franzblau

New Paltz

A letter March 14 titled "Obama lifestyle lavish" was downright hilarious. In this letter, the writer says it cost the taxpayers $1.4 billion a year to take care of Obama and his family, according to the Daily Caller and others.

Does this writer know the Daily Caller is a right-wing opinion website? It was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, former adviser to Dick Cheney. The writer then fails to name the other sources.

I have to wonder how the writer thinks Obama gets this $1.4 billion to go on vacation. Does he have some kind of presidential credit card with an unlimited credit line?

I hope in the future this writer will do a little more research before submitting his letters. I hate to see gullible people make such fools out of themselves.

Paul Costello

Newburgh

A reader writes that it costs taxpayers $1.4 billion a year to support the Obama "family and staff." That's about $200 million less than was spent the last year of Bush's presidency for "family and staff."

I didn't read of any complaints by the reader or anyone when Bush was in office. A thinking person might investigate what all this money is spent on instead of just parroting the ranting of Glenn Beck or Donald Trump. It takes a lot of money to run the presidency and, believe it or not, he works for all of us.

Like Mitt Romney, Obama earns his own money but is taxed at a higher rate than Mitt. Like Mitt Romney, Obama lives in a fancy house, but Obama's house has elevators for people, not cars. Unlike Mitt, Obama was twice chosen by the American people to represent us. Get over it.